August 12, 2025 • 35 mins
A new study is out on the “Best States to Live.” How does yours stack up against the others? National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will run the numbers and explain why you are better (or worse) than most.
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President Trump spoke about his upcoming summit with Vladamir Putin, the crackdown on crime in Washington and even his thoughts on federal marijuana laws at a wide-ranging news conference Monday. White House Correspondent JON DECKER was among the reporters in the Briefing Room, and he will recap the news conference.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
Hi know, and I'm sorry to thank you, Ny, but
I just can't he the future having to be doing
birthdays based on looking out. We have a show. I
appreciate it. What are you? Thank you? Anny?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Are you taking? Seven minutes after that, I was talking
to your boss about playing sir mix a lot in
my ear. I don't deserve such harassment while I'm in
the work environment. All I did was mention it's his birthday?
Do we have to relive the medley of his greatest head?
Well there was only one. I mean, as far as
words are, I forgot how awful that song is all
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joking aside. Eight minutes after the hour, Welcome to Tuesday, August,
the twelfth year of Our Lord. Twenty twenty five, President
Trump announcing that he's federalizing Washington, DC's police department as
part of a crime crackdown, also giving an executive order
to extend the tariff truce with China for ninety days,
probably to buy him some time to negotiate with Vladimir
Putin and Alaska. And the President making it clear yesterday
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so Lensky will not be a part of that summit.
But that doesn't stop the President for being optimistic that
he can negotiate these tricky waters and get a cease fire.
All right, New studies out best states to live in?
You know, Rory, it seems like every roy O'Neil is
our national correspondent, is joining us. Seems like every time
I turn around, we've got one of these studies best cities,
best States. Well, that's the folks at Walonhov. It's what
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they do. So I'll talk to Chris about that. No,
but I'm gonna I want to do it reverse. If
the end, can I make a guess because the best states? No,
you don't I would never guess. Of course again no,
but yeah, go ahead, No, Like, what do you think
is the best state? I mean, it depends on what
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you view it as. And I know they're gonna have
a criteria, but like I kind of view things as Tennessee, Texas, Florida,
places that don't have an income tax. I mean that's
very favorable when you're still in your earning years. Then
you have those that review different states for retirement and
that that can be a different view by and large.
So if you said best state to live in, I
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got to give a shout out to Missouri because I
love all the cities in Missouri. I could live in
Saint Louis, I could live in Kansas City. I you know,
I could live in Branson. I mean really, it's a
beautiful state with great cities in it. My guess is
Missouri is nowhere near the top. It is not.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
And you said taxes are important to you, actually taxa
Choosetts is the number one state according to WOW based
on now now I will say it comes in forty
fourth on the affordability scale. So there are five different categories,
and Massachusetts comes in forty fourth for affordability, but still
number one overall, citing its economy, number one in education
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and health care availability, quality of life, and public safety
also ranks rather high. Plus they've got the best sports teams,
So I mean, I think that should.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And we're out of time. Rory will be back in
the time, kidding, go ahead. What else is in the
what about? I mean your morning shows now in so
many places, I think we're almost three quarters of the
states represented, So maybe it's just easier to do the
top ten.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah, so Massachusetts number one, Idaho, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Florida is there at number six, New Hampshire. There's one
of your tax free states, Utah, New York State, and
Pennsylvania in the top ten. Bottom of the barrel of Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisian,
the Big five, Oh, all the little Green men love it,
(04:03):
New Mexico, New.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Mexico, Okay, Oklahoma, Midway, Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Top sure, Oklahoma comes in forty three, Tennessee forty.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Where else are we A lot of places in Ohio, Arizona, California,
Ohio twenty six, California thirty two.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah, and again a lot of them it all. You know,
they really put in a lot of data points. It's
everything from museums per capita to an amount of time
spent in traffic, employment rates, healthcare outcomes. So it's a
lot of different data points all coming together. All right,
Rory's going to be back in the third hour. We're
going to talk about what used to be called food
stamps that's now called snap and how involved the government
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can get in deciding what you use that money to buy.
Here we are with all America. What is I think
our diet is now three quarters processed food? I think
it was that high in the last study, and that's
for all of us. So what do you expect it's
going to be in terms of food stamps.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
We'll kick that around with Rory next hour. Also, David
Sina he's going to join us. We need to have
a conversation today. Number one, is it constitutional for the
President of the United States to bring in federal National
Guard to police and cities? And the president has some
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constitutional authority to secure Washington, DC, especially related to DC,
but there are some limitations in the presidents using a
special was it thirty day red the thirty day provision
to do it in this act? I can't remember if
it was thirty or sixty days, it doesn't really matter.
But the answer is just overwhelming it Yes, yes, he
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has the constitutional right to do it. And then once
you understand that, and you know the problems we're having
in Chicago blue state, blue sat City, Baltimore, blue state,
blue city, New York City blue state, blue city, Los
Angeles blue state, blue city, there's no way to avoid
(06:12):
this becoming a partisan narrative in fight. But it shouldn't
be should be about American lives, justice, security. Nobody wants
to live where it's not safe, Nobody wants to go
to school where it's not safe, Nobody wants to work
where it's not safe. So if the answer is yes,
the president has the constitutional authority to do this, wouldn't
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the next logical, common sensical question be why has no
president done this before? For shirts and skins blue versus Red,
our versus d political narrative, We've watched generations of teenagers
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shooting each other and dying and we've done nothing. And
if it's constitutional, in it is. And if the answer
is previous president should have is Donald Trump going to
stop at DC? And he kind of We didn't get
far into the news conference before He made that pretty
crystal clear he would and that could be a your
(07:19):
morning show city near you. And we went over the
thirty US cities with at least one hundred thousand residents
and the crimes per one hundred thousand stats, and Memphis
is number one. If anybody, even after DC, needs to
be first in line, it's probably Memphis. All the others
(07:40):
are there, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, but some of
you probably didn't think about Detroit seventh on the list,
Cleveland second on the list, Nashville thirteenth on the list.
That's only three spots above Chicago. Tell Us, Oklahoma, twenty
(08:01):
first on the list, Buffalo, New York twenty third on
the list. Oh, there's a lot of you listening to
me this morning. Now, it would take real maturity, real statesmanship,
real citizenry to have a calm conversation. What are the
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things these cities could change and do for themselves that
would make a dramatic difference. And when they can't handle
it themselves and they can't change policies themselves, what can
the federal government do to protect its citizens who aren't
being protected by the people they're electing. Will we ever
(08:49):
get to those conversations, because I would look you in
the eye this morning and say the number one priority,
These are things that we never talk about that we should.
What is the proper size and role of government? And
what is the role and the responsibility of the self governed.
(09:10):
That conversation alone would solve ninety percent of the problems,
kind of like when we talk about a zero based
prioritize balance budget, flatter fare attack system, term limits, paper only,
voting in person, that'd be like flick in this country,
an autopilot. It really wouldn't matter who was president, but
(09:33):
we'll never do it. Why do we choose the two
party stranglehold that creates distraction and division or the one
party media that creates confusion and mistrust within that distraction
and division. Why do we choose to worship a president
or demonize a president rather than understand the real power
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belongs in Congress, belongs in us, we the people. We
choose a loyalty to a party at the endangerment of
our own children, at our own cities. Well, this is
where the debate is headed. It's what the people deserve.
(10:18):
And I'm sure the president would prefer that the local
authorities provided it ended up being, I think, and John
Decker will join us next half hour, the most crowded
White House press conference briefing room in history, so much
so that the question came up, Hey, why can't we
(10:38):
just get a building ballrooms? Can we get a bigger
press room.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
You're building a big, beautiful ballroom. Could we build a big,
beautiful briefing room.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I don't want you to be comfortable. I mean, there
were moments where there were some real tough questions and
there should be, concerning peace talks with Russia, concerning setting
National Guard troops into a city. But there was something
(11:13):
different watching, isn't there seeing heg Seth and Bondie and
everybody behind the president seeing I will say this, it's
just in layman's terms and very generic. I think this
press appreciates this president, his transparency, his availability. He's there
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every day for them. I mean, in the midst of
the death of journalism, are we seeing something shift just
in watching these news conferences? Can it shift enough to
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an awakening where the people will take on their self
governed dutiful citizen, right and duty. Let's start prioritizing because
I can assure you this, these cities are all in
trouble because it's citizens elected people who didn't prioritize their
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own safety, and now they'd rather live in danger than
have a president send in some help just to get
things stabilized. Because I assure you this is the next
big shirts and skins to bing who are going to
be having.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chrono.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Let me think about it. You name a show, you're
a morning show, and nobody listens. You're dead because we
can't have your morning show without your voice. That's never
been a problem. Let's start with Leslie.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
That's what's wrong with that generation.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
Their life growing up watching reality.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
TV shows, seeing what people will.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Have, all of these things which they don't and.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Instagram and everybody looks like they have a lot of
money when they don't. So it's unfortunate that they would
take money over love.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, she's talking about the new report gen Z in particular,
thanks love is overrated. They choose financial security a guy
with money. The love of money might be the root
of all evil. It may also be a recipe for
a disastrous life.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
Big John at the book yesterday in Trump's press conference,
a report to ask them, how will you know within
two or three minutes that you'll have a deal with Russia.
He goes, because that's what I do. I make deals.
That was great book. Yeah, I got that clip coming
up in our Sounds of the day. James is a
mailman sorting more than mail this morning. He's sorting his thoughts.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Ah, this is Jim, your Brentwood mailman.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
And the reason no president's done it before is because
it would be unpopular.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Well there is that. Here's that talk back about on
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dot com. Top five stories Numrouno. President Trump says the
Ukrainian leader will not take part in the summit with
Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Trump says he's unsure where Putin stands.
(14:13):
I believe he wants to get it over with now.
Speaker 9 (14:15):
I've said that a few times that I've been disappointed
because I have like a great call with him, and
then missiles would be lobbed in Takiyev for some other place.
Speaker 10 (14:24):
Trump says he's going to call Ukrainian President Selenski and
other European leaders after he talks with Putin and possibly
set up a meeting with Ukraine's leader. Trump says he
doesn't anticipate a deal to end the Ukraine Russian War
after meeting Putin, but then he added he'll either tell
both science there's going to be a deal or they
can keep fighting. Trump called his sit down with Putin
a feel out meeting.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I'm Mark Midfield. President Trump is signing an executive order
to extend a tariff truce with China for another ninety days.
The truce, struck in June during talks with US and
Chinese officials, keeps US tariffs on most Chinese goods at
fifty five percent. The US is returning asking Beijing for
a commitment to boost exports of rare earths to the
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United States. Well. The mayor of Washington, DC is reacting
to the president's crime actions in the nation's capital.
Speaker 11 (15:10):
Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser spoke out after Trump placed the
DC police under federal control and activated the National Guard
as part of his major crackdown on crime.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
And while this action today is unsettingly and unprecedented, I
can't say that given some of the rhetoric of the
past that.
Speaker 11 (15:30):
Were totally surprised Bowser thinks Trump's current view on crime
and DC is shaped by rising crime rates during his
first term, but she says it's dropped since then.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I'm Brian Shuk. Meanwhile, in New York City, the last
remaining hotel in its emergency system to house migrants is closing.
Speaker 12 (15:49):
Mayor Eric Adams made the announcement Monday, citing a steady
decline in the number of migrants arriving in New York.
Families who currently live in The Row NYC, a four
star hotel in Manhattan Theater District, will be moved to
other shelters by the time the city's lease with the
hotel expires in April. The Row, with its thirteen hundred rooms,
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was the first and largest hotel to be turned into
a migrant shelter when tens of thousands of migrants began
overwhelming New York City resources. In twenty twenty two, I'm
Sarah Lee Kessler.
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the Eastern time zone, you have twenty four minutes to
be to work on time by eight o'clock. The President
announced he's federalizing Washington, DC's police department and is cracked
down on crime. Also an executive order to extend tariff
truce with China, and officials now say two people were
killed in Monday's explosion at a steel factory near Pittsburgh.
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And forecasters keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Errin this morning.
Who could become she could become It could become a
hurricane towards the end of the week. Time for the
always revealing, often entertaining sounds of the day.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
All people who majored in online activism with a minor
and puberty barb real a little bit.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Any of you in the media clearly missed the art
of the deal. It's going to work out, all right.
It all started at the big news conference, the President
comparing Washington, d c. To walking into a restaurant with
a dirty door, something his father taught him a long
time ago. I believe this was Redd's favorite analogy of
the day.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
When you walk into a restaurant and you see a
dirty front door, don't go in, because if the front
door is there, the kitchens dirty. Also, same thing with
the capital. You are Capital's dirty. Our whole country is dirty,
and they don't respect us.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
So it's a very good question. President also was challenged
about his meeting with Vladimir Putin as to whether or
not he could get a good deal, and even if
he did, how would he know he got a good deal,
especially within the first two minutes.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
Listen, the deal is because there could be many definitions.
You know, you're talking about a very large and complex situation.
I said to you the war that I just settled
with iSER Baijan and with as you know, in Armenia
was almost as complex as this one, having to do
with routes. Meeting on Friday with Vladimir, Well, we're going
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to have a meeting with Latimir Putin, and at the
end of that meeting, probably in the first two minutes,
I'll know exactly whether or not a deal can be.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I know that because that's what I do on my dels.
That was big John's favorite moment was great, even through
another forty seven like thing, he had a sir yesterday
during the news conference, this was kind of the one
we chose. That just shows you even after all the
tough questions about POOT and all the tough questions about
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federalizing the police department in Washington, d C. The most
crowded White House press room ever, and what one I mean, Really,
the entire first term was nothing but the hate between
the President and the media, the attacks and the responses,
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and it was Now they're covering tough stuff. Everybody's doing
their job and they're laughing. Now. I don't know who
they represent and what the mission of where they represent is,
and I don't doubt that they're still biased, and I
don't doubt the journalism is dead. But for these people
in the White House, I'm noticing something like I haven't
(21:04):
seen since Reagan and Kennedy appreciate his transparency, appreciate his candor,
and yesterday they'd appreciate a bigger room to play it.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Listen, you're building a big beautiful ballroom. Could we build
a big, beautiful briefing room.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I don't want you to be comfortable.
Speaker 9 (21:37):
No, I don't want to make I don't want to
make life comfortable.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
So you're building a big beauty. I know we're going
to talk to John Decker a little bit more about this.
That may have been the most crowd of that room ever.
Was for some pretty big topics. But in the midst
of all of it, I don't know, I gotta come
and say I'm trying to edit myself. It's like a
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spirit of joy. I don't know. It's like remember the
movie Lean On Me. After Morgan Freeman's character bus chops
for a while, then you're out allowed to have some
fun too. Something very encouraging in that I was talking
to a dear colleague gun his birthday yesterday. He really
(22:26):
thought Judge Janine shined yesterday. Le here was one of
her band moments. As Big John would say.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
I see too much violent crime being committed by young
punks who think that they can get together in gangs
and crews and beat the hell out of you or
anyone else. They don't care where they are. They can
be in DuPont Circle, but they know that we can't
touch them. Why because the laws are weak. I can't
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touch you if you're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old
and you have a gun. I convict someone of shooting
another person with an illegal gun on a public bus
in the chest, intent to kill.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I convict him, and you know what, the.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
Judge gives him probation, says you should go to college.
We need to go after the DC Council and their
absurd laws. We need to get rid of this concept
of a no cash fail. We need to recognize that
the people who matter are the law abiding citizens.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And it starts.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Today, but it's not going to end today because the
President is going to do everything we need to do
to make sure that these emboldened criminals understand we see you,
we're watching you, and we're going to change the law
to catch you. And my final note is this, these
kids understand that the jurisdiction is through the state Attorney
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General Brian Schwab. I did a poster of the young
man from Coach who is beaten, bloody with a severe
concussion of broken nose, and then I did a poster
of what happens to those kids because I can't arrest them,
I can't prosecute them. They go to family court and
they get to do yoga and.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Arts and crafts.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Enough it changes today.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
There's a lot of fire in that little package. Jennine Piro,
who is the US Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Now I am fully aware that, look, I don't like
this is in reverse order. Obviously, she goes from being
a judge to being a opinionated host on a partisan
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news network and the news and entertainment network to them
back to public service. So it's a little bit reversed.
And some people, you know, you wouldn't like it if
they were plucking people, and you don't like it when
they do it, pluck people right off MSNBC, CNN and
put them in positions. But I think she'd to rest
that this was some kind of a Fox appointment. She
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is a very accomplished judge, and now she seems to
be a very determined US attorney in the District of Columbia.
She certainly shined yesterday. She barely could reach the podium.
We gotta get arrest. I didn't realize Didie Perro was
that tiny. This is just nasty. This is a former
(25:26):
Bravo star. This is more of the almost hesitated in
playing it. I don't know that this moves the needle forward,
moves the conversation forward, moves the flawed spirit in our
country forward in any way. But just to give you
a glimpse that just sound nasty the left can be
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and how they're thinking is so ginned up by either
deceiving narratives, distorted narratives, or false narratives that they arrive
at these kinds of nasty, false conclusions. This is how
the left views the right. I don't I'm not comfortable.
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I want the right to stop doing. The left is
the enemy. The left to stop doing the right is
the enemy. I want us all to return to our
original intent and documents that guide us to the God
who guided us, and to self governance that guides us.
But this is an example of just how nasty it's gotten.
I've had it with.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
White people that triple trump YEA, that have the nerve
and the audacity to walk into a Mexican restaurant, a
Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Go to perhaps their gay hairdresser.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Brindley, I don't think you should be able to enjoy
anything but cracker barrel. And if you want to triple Trump,
you want to browbeat DEI. You want to browbeat gay people,
and you want to browbeat black people as you've been
doing for four hundred years. And you want to browbeat
this generation of immigrants that come over here and open
up businesses, earnestly pay their taxes.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Why people that.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Triple Trump should be banned, boycotted from enjoying the best
thing that America has to offer, which is multi culturalism.
Get your fats out of the Mexican restaurant, get your
fats over to cracker beer.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
So the reason why I had would be chomping at
the bit to discuss the Democrat parties problematic stances on slavery, segregation,
and other things throughout history, or their bedfellows islamis with gay.
(27:46):
I mean, it's just so misinformed, so distorted. I wouldn't
know where to begin to break it down other than
to say, this is why the matrix is so important.
I was just going to say, I like Margaritis, that's
why you go, Well, I do have the in depth
conversation between two real political policy geniuses, Jimmy Kimmel and
(28:10):
Sarah Silverman on a podcast.
Speaker 13 (28:12):
If you.
Speaker 14 (28:13):
A lot of usually know we're thinking about where they
can get UH citizenship.
Speaker 13 (28:19):
And I do have Italian I did get Italian citizens
You do amazing.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I do have that.
Speaker 13 (28:26):
And what's going on is UH is as bad as
you thought it was gonna be way worse.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
It's so much worse thought it was like, oh yeah,
so much worse. By the way, there'll be no specifics given.
Speaker 13 (28:42):
I feel like it's probably even worse than he would
like it to be.
Speaker 14 (28:47):
Probably, Yeah, I mean I do every once in a while,
I'll google Trump regrets or Maga regrets just to see
all the people that I'm not happy that they're upset
and another but I'm it makes me hope that maybe people
will this will bring people together.
Speaker 13 (29:06):
Yeah, well, I have some thoughts on that, and I
think that there are a lot of people like now,
you see like these clips of Joe Rogan saying, I.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Mean, it just goes on and on, and I don't know,
there's an irrelevance that's brewing. I mean, you listen to
that clip and you think it's been a while since
either of them made me laugh. I don't know why
they gave up on comedy or never mastered comedy, but
(29:37):
they certainly haven't mastered political. You know, next next, Yeah, Well,
his contract is up at the end of the year,
and I don't I don't. I don't know if he's
headed for Italy, but I think he'll be shown the
door in LA that's for sure. Everybody.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Look, he's just got to try harder not to the
opportunity for a brief civic lesson.
Speaker 9 (30:00):
Sure fashion, perhaps you'd like to be alone with you
a conteriorating mental condition.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
And that.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Is your Sounds of the Day for this Tuesday, August.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
The twelfth, it's your morning show with Michael del Chno.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
If you're just waking up. The President announced he's federalizing
the Washington DC Police Department as part of a crime crackdown.
Question is is it going to stop there? Question is
is this that unprecedented? Certainly within his constitutional authority. Why
has no other president done it before? Well? John Decker,
our White House correspondent, was in that crowded? Was that
the most and you've served date presidents now as a
(30:38):
White House correspondent, was that the most crowded room that
you've ever been in?
Speaker 15 (30:43):
I think it was, you know, and you're right. I've
been in there for all kinds of announcements by every
president since Bill Clinton, but that I think was the
most crowd it has ever been.
Speaker 16 (30:53):
Thankfully I had a seat, but unfortunately I.
Speaker 15 (30:57):
Did not get called upon yesterday, but good.
Speaker 16 (30:59):
Questions being asked by my colleagues.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Let me ask you. There was a question a picture
you sent me from behind President Trump and it was
kind of like one of those like panoramic type things.
Who took that?
Speaker 15 (31:09):
Yes, that's any photographer, yes, arimial photo. Yeah, so that
that is done by remote So there's no one with
the ladder.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Behind the president.
Speaker 15 (31:18):
It's a remote camera and it's it takes a pretty
cool picture.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
And that's why. So let me ask you this, seeing
how crowded it is, it came up. Do you think
we need a bigger press room? President says he doesn't
want you to be that comfortable.
Speaker 15 (31:33):
Yeah, no, I don't think that's going to happen. I
don't want that to happen.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
By the way, it's.
Speaker 15 (31:37):
Great our proximity to the White to the West Wing,
our proximity to the Oval Office. And the President enjoys that.
Speaker 16 (31:44):
Too, you know, he can simply leave his office, take
a few steps.
Speaker 15 (31:48):
And he's in the briefing room. So yeah, I don't
I don't think that's going to change.
Speaker 16 (31:51):
I'm going I'm going I'm.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Going softball into hard But one last on the on
the softball front, we're all sensing a difference. Uh, the
first term of Donald Trump was so combative between the
press and the president. Quite frankly, it was dysfunctional. Now
we're still getting the tough questions, they're getting getting the
tough answers, but it's as if there's an appreciation of
(32:14):
the transparency and the availability of this president. Yesterday a
lot of tough questions asked, and then there was a
lot of just spirited joy in the room as everybody
was kind of having a good time going back and forth.
How do you compare the mood in the room not
just between Trump one and Trump two, but even the
other presidencies you've covered. This feels very Kennedy reaganlike.
Speaker 15 (32:35):
Well, it's different. You know, it's it's hard to say,
you know, in just you know, one sentence, how it's different.
You know, I think it's certainly different than the first term.
There was, without a doubt you noticed it, but I
felt it every day. Uh, there was this this battle
that happened, it seemed every day between the President and
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certain members of the Press Corps. Not everybody, but certain
members of the press Corps. That is not happening as much.
And you're right, the Press Cort definitely appreciates all of
the access that we get to President Trump and the
opportunity to ask the President questions almost every day.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
All right, a lot of good questions, a lot of
synac answers, most significant Q and A that you witnessed
that we shouldn't miss.
Speaker 15 (33:20):
Yes, Well, in terms of yeah, I think that it
really has to do with, you know, something that affects
the entire world. That's the war in Ukraine. You know,
I mean, DC affects a small population and it's important
obviously the residents of the district, but the war in
Ukraine is an issue that affects the entire world, not
just Ukraine. It affects certainly Europe. So the President giving
(33:41):
a preview about what he expects, what we can expect,
what he'd like to see happen in terms of goals
coming out of this one on one summit that'll have
with President Putin on Friday in Alaska. I'll be there
in Alaska, Michael. I look forward to talking to you
when I'm there. But the President spoke about two goals.
One goal trying to get an immediate.
Speaker 16 (34:00):
Ceasefire in place, uh, and then the second goal.
Speaker 15 (34:04):
Is trying to win some territorial concessions coming from President Whoton.
That's going to be difficult. That's going to be very difficult.
But we'll see what happens during the course of the
president's meeting.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
John Decker, White House correspondent joining us he'll be in
Alaska for the summit. Why do you think the President
said he'll know within two minutes.
Speaker 16 (34:23):
Because he feels he can read.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
A room well, and I.
Speaker 15 (34:26):
Think that that is one of his skill sets.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
Uh.
Speaker 15 (34:29):
And you know, I think that he understands after all
the conversations that he's had with Vladimir Putin and things
that are big supporters of the president, he'll know if
he's getting played. And so that's what I think he
meant when he said he'll know it's.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
In the first two minutes and knows Zolensky and he
knows Zolensky. Yeah, just premature right at this point.
Speaker 15 (34:48):
Yeah, yeah, Nos Zolensky. Uh, and that is I think
pretty much set in stone. There will not be an
appearance of President Vladimir Lensky in Alaska.
Speaker 16 (35:00):
This coming Friday. The president, certainly.
Speaker 15 (35:02):
We'll have to meet with him in the near future
after this meeting on Friday with Pooty.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Well, you're either outside all alone in solitude by the
West Wing, or you're crowded in that room. But thank god,
you're there for us, and you'll be there for us
in Alaska. White House Correspondent John Decker, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
This is your morning show with Michael o'dill Trump.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Hi know, and I'm sorry to thank you, Ny, but
I just can't he the future having to be doing
birthdays based on looking out. We have a show. I
appreciate it. What are you? Thank you? Anny?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Are you taking? Seven minutes after that, I was talking
to your boss about playing sir mix a lot in
my ear. I don't deserve such harassment while I'm in
the work environment. All I did was mention it's his birthday?
Do we have to relive the medley of his greatest head?
Well there was only one. I mean, as far as
words are, I forgot how awful that song is all
(01:11):
joking aside. Eight minutes after the hour, Welcome to Tuesday, August,
the twelfth year of Our Lord. Twenty twenty five, President
Trump announcing that he's federalizing Washington, DC's police department as
part of a crime crackdown, also giving an executive order
to extend the tariff truce with China for ninety days,
probably to buy him some time to negotiate with Vladimir
Putin and Alaska. And the President making it clear yesterday
(01:32):
so Lensky will not be a part of that summit.
But that doesn't stop the President for being optimistic that
he can negotiate these tricky waters and get a cease fire.
All right, New studies out best states to live in?
You know, Rory, it seems like every roy O'Neil is
our national correspondent, is joining us. Seems like every time
I turn around, we've got one of these studies best cities,
best States. Well, that's the folks at Walonhov. It's what
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they do. So I'll talk to Chris about that. No,
but I'm gonna I want to do it reverse. If
the end, can I make a guess because the best states? No,
you don't I would never guess. Of course again no,
but yeah, go ahead, No, Like, what do you think
is the best state? I mean, it depends on what
(02:16):
you view it as. And I know they're gonna have
a criteria, but like I kind of view things as Tennessee, Texas, Florida,
places that don't have an income tax. I mean that's
very favorable when you're still in your earning years. Then
you have those that review different states for retirement and
that that can be a different view by and large.
So if you said best state to live in, I
(02:37):
got to give a shout out to Missouri because I
love all the cities in Missouri. I could live in
Saint Louis, I could live in Kansas City. I you know,
I could live in Branson. I mean really, it's a
beautiful state with great cities in it. My guess is
Missouri is nowhere near the top. It is not.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
And you said taxes are important to you, actually taxa
Choosetts is the number one state according to WOW based
on now now I will say it comes in forty
fourth on the affordability scale. So there are five different categories,
and Massachusetts comes in forty fourth for affordability, but still
number one overall, citing its economy, number one in education
(03:19):
and health care availability, quality of life, and public safety
also ranks rather high. Plus they've got the best sports teams,
So I mean, I think that should.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And we're out of time. Rory will be back in
the time, kidding, go ahead. What else is in the
what about? I mean your morning shows now in so
many places, I think we're almost three quarters of the
states represented, So maybe it's just easier to do the
top ten.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah, so Massachusetts number one, Idaho, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Florida is there at number six, New Hampshire. There's one
of your tax free states, Utah, New York State, and
Pennsylvania in the top ten. Bottom of the barrel of Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisian,
the Big five, Oh, all the little Green men love it,
(04:03):
New Mexico, New.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Mexico, Okay, Oklahoma, Midway, Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Top sure, Oklahoma comes in forty three, Tennessee forty.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Where else are we A lot of places in Ohio, Arizona, California,
Ohio twenty six, California thirty two.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah, and again a lot of them it all. You know,
they really put in a lot of data points. It's
everything from museums per capita to an amount of time
spent in traffic, employment rates, healthcare outcomes. So it's a
lot of different data points all coming together. All right,
Rory's going to be back in the third hour. We're
going to talk about what used to be called food
stamps that's now called snap and how involved the government
(04:48):
can get in deciding what you use that money to buy.
Here we are with all America. What is I think
our diet is now three quarters processed food? I think
it was that high in the last study, and that's
for all of us. So what do you expect it's
going to be in terms of food stamps.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
We'll kick that around with Rory next hour. Also, David
Sina he's going to join us. We need to have
a conversation today. Number one, is it constitutional for the
President of the United States to bring in federal National
Guard to police and cities? And the president has some
(05:29):
constitutional authority to secure Washington, DC, especially related to DC,
but there are some limitations in the presidents using a
special was it thirty day red the thirty day provision
to do it in this act? I can't remember if
it was thirty or sixty days, it doesn't really matter.
But the answer is just overwhelming it Yes, yes, he
(05:51):
has the constitutional right to do it. And then once
you understand that, and you know the problems we're having
in Chicago blue state, blue sat City, Baltimore, blue state,
blue city, New York City blue state, blue city, Los
Angeles blue state, blue city, there's no way to avoid
(06:12):
this becoming a partisan narrative in fight. But it shouldn't
be should be about American lives, justice, security. Nobody wants
to live where it's not safe, Nobody wants to go
to school where it's not safe, Nobody wants to work
where it's not safe. So if the answer is yes,
the president has the constitutional authority to do this, wouldn't
(06:33):
the next logical, common sensical question be why has no
president done this before? For shirts and skins blue versus Red,
our versus d political narrative, We've watched generations of teenagers
(06:55):
shooting each other and dying and we've done nothing. And
if it's constitutional, in it is. And if the answer
is previous president should have is Donald Trump going to
stop at DC? And he kind of We didn't get
far into the news conference before He made that pretty
crystal clear he would and that could be a your
(07:19):
morning show city near you. And we went over the
thirty US cities with at least one hundred thousand residents
and the crimes per one hundred thousand stats, and Memphis
is number one. If anybody, even after DC, needs to
be first in line, it's probably Memphis. All the others
(07:40):
are there, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, but some of
you probably didn't think about Detroit seventh on the list,
Cleveland second on the list, Nashville thirteenth on the list.
That's only three spots above Chicago. Tell Us, Oklahoma, twenty
(08:01):
first on the list, Buffalo, New York twenty third on
the list. Oh, there's a lot of you listening to
me this morning. Now, it would take real maturity, real statesmanship,
real citizenry to have a calm conversation. What are the
(08:27):
things these cities could change and do for themselves that
would make a dramatic difference. And when they can't handle
it themselves and they can't change policies themselves, what can
the federal government do to protect its citizens who aren't
being protected by the people they're electing. Will we ever
(08:49):
get to those conversations, because I would look you in
the eye this morning and say the number one priority,
These are things that we never talk about that we should.
What is the proper size and role of government? And
what is the role and the responsibility of the self governed.
(09:10):
That conversation alone would solve ninety percent of the problems,
kind of like when we talk about a zero based
prioritize balance budget, flatter fare attack system, term limits, paper only,
voting in person, that'd be like flick in this country,
an autopilot. It really wouldn't matter who was president, but
(09:33):
we'll never do it. Why do we choose the two
party stranglehold that creates distraction and division or the one
party media that creates confusion and mistrust within that distraction
and division. Why do we choose to worship a president
or demonize a president rather than understand the real power
(09:53):
belongs in Congress, belongs in us, we the people. We
choose a loyalty to a party at the endangerment of
our own children, at our own cities. Well, this is
where the debate is headed. It's what the people deserve.
(10:18):
And I'm sure the president would prefer that the local
authorities provided it ended up being, I think, and John
Decker will join us next half hour, the most crowded
White House press conference briefing room in history, so much
so that the question came up, Hey, why can't we
(10:38):
just get a building ballrooms? Can we get a bigger
press room.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
You're building a big, beautiful ballroom. Could we build a big,
beautiful briefing room.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I don't want you to be comfortable. I mean, there
were moments where there were some real tough questions and
there should be, concerning peace talks with Russia, concerning setting
National Guard troops into a city. But there was something
(11:13):
different watching, isn't there seeing heg Seth and Bondie and
everybody behind the president seeing I will say this, it's
just in layman's terms and very generic. I think this
press appreciates this president, his transparency, his availability. He's there
(11:37):
every day for them. I mean, in the midst of
the death of journalism, are we seeing something shift just
in watching these news conferences? Can it shift enough to
(12:01):
an awakening where the people will take on their self
governed dutiful citizen, right and duty. Let's start prioritizing because
I can assure you this, these cities are all in
trouble because it's citizens elected people who didn't prioritize their
(12:23):
own safety, and now they'd rather live in danger than
have a president send in some help just to get
things stabilized. Because I assure you this is the next
big shirts and skins to bing who are going to
be having.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chrono.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Let me think about it. You name a show, you're
a morning show, and nobody listens. You're dead because we
can't have your morning show without your voice. That's never
been a problem. Let's start with Leslie.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
That's what's wrong with that generation.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
Their life growing up watching reality.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
TV shows, seeing what people will.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Have, all of these things which they don't and.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Instagram and everybody looks like they have a lot of
money when they don't. So it's unfortunate that they would
take money over love.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, she's talking about the new report gen Z in particular,
thanks love is overrated. They choose financial security a guy
with money. The love of money might be the root
of all evil. It may also be a recipe for
a disastrous life.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
Big John at the book yesterday in Trump's press conference,
a report to ask them, how will you know within
two or three minutes that you'll have a deal with Russia.
He goes, because that's what I do. I make deals.
That was great book. Yeah, I got that clip coming
up in our Sounds of the day. James is a
mailman sorting more than mail this morning. He's sorting his thoughts.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Ah, this is Jim, your Brentwood mailman.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
And the reason no president's done it before is because
it would be unpopular.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Well there is that. Here's that talk back about on
your iHeart app or if you were comfortable sharing your
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dot com. Top five stories Numrouno. President Trump says the
Ukrainian leader will not take part in the summit with
Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Trump says he's unsure where Putin stands.
(14:13):
I believe he wants to get it over with now.
Speaker 9 (14:15):
I've said that a few times that I've been disappointed
because I have like a great call with him, and
then missiles would be lobbed in Takiyev for some other place.
Speaker 10 (14:24):
Trump says he's going to call Ukrainian President Selenski and
other European leaders after he talks with Putin and possibly
set up a meeting with Ukraine's leader. Trump says he
doesn't anticipate a deal to end the Ukraine Russian War
after meeting Putin, but then he added he'll either tell
both science there's going to be a deal or they
can keep fighting. Trump called his sit down with Putin
a feel out meeting.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I'm Mark Midfield. President Trump is signing an executive order
to extend a tariff truce with China for another ninety days.
The truce, struck in June during talks with US and
Chinese officials, keeps US tariffs on most Chinese goods at
fifty five percent. The US is returning asking Beijing for
a commitment to boost exports of rare earths to the
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United States. Well. The mayor of Washington, DC is reacting
to the president's crime actions in the nation's capital.
Speaker 11 (15:10):
Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser spoke out after Trump placed the
DC police under federal control and activated the National Guard
as part of his major crackdown on crime.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
And while this action today is unsettingly and unprecedented, I
can't say that given some of the rhetoric of the
past that.
Speaker 11 (15:30):
Were totally surprised Bowser thinks Trump's current view on crime
and DC is shaped by rising crime rates during his
first term, but she says it's dropped since then.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I'm Brian Shuk. Meanwhile, in New York City, the last
remaining hotel in its emergency system to house migrants is closing.
Speaker 12 (15:49):
Mayor Eric Adams made the announcement Monday, citing a steady
decline in the number of migrants arriving in New York.
Families who currently live in The Row NYC, a four
star hotel in Manhattan Theater District, will be moved to
other shelters by the time the city's lease with the
hotel expires in April. The Row, with its thirteen hundred rooms,
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was the first and largest hotel to be turned into
a migrant shelter when tens of thousands of migrants began
overwhelming New York City resources. In twenty twenty two, I'm
Sarah Lee Kessler.
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the Eastern time zone, you have twenty four minutes to
be to work on time by eight o'clock. The President
announced he's federalizing Washington, DC's police department and is cracked
down on crime. Also an executive order to extend tariff
truce with China, and officials now say two people were
killed in Monday's explosion at a steel factory near Pittsburgh.
(18:07):
And forecasters keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Errin this morning.
Who could become she could become It could become a
hurricane towards the end of the week. Time for the
always revealing, often entertaining sounds of the day.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
All people who majored in online activism with a minor
and puberty barb real a little bit.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Any of you in the media clearly missed the art
of the deal. It's going to work out, all right.
It all started at the big news conference, the President
comparing Washington, d c. To walking into a restaurant with
a dirty door, something his father taught him a long
time ago. I believe this was Redd's favorite analogy of
the day.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
When you walk into a restaurant and you see a
dirty front door, don't go in, because if the front
door is there, the kitchens dirty. Also, same thing with
the capital. You are Capital's dirty. Our whole country is dirty,
and they don't respect us.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
So it's a very good question. President also was challenged
about his meeting with Vladimir Putin as to whether or
not he could get a good deal, and even if
he did, how would he know he got a good deal,
especially within the first two minutes.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
Listen, the deal is because there could be many definitions.
You know, you're talking about a very large and complex situation.
I said to you the war that I just settled
with iSER Baijan and with as you know, in Armenia
was almost as complex as this one, having to do
with routes. Meeting on Friday with Vladimir, Well, we're going
(19:53):
to have a meeting with Latimir Putin, and at the
end of that meeting, probably in the first two minutes,
I'll know exactly whether or not a deal can be.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I know that because that's what I do on my dels.
That was big John's favorite moment was great, even through
another forty seven like thing, he had a sir yesterday
during the news conference, this was kind of the one
we chose. That just shows you even after all the
tough questions about POOT and all the tough questions about
(20:21):
federalizing the police department in Washington, d C. The most
crowded White House press room ever, and what one I mean, Really,
the entire first term was nothing but the hate between
the President and the media, the attacks and the responses,
(20:42):
and it was Now they're covering tough stuff. Everybody's doing
their job and they're laughing. Now. I don't know who
they represent and what the mission of where they represent is,
and I don't doubt that they're still biased, and I
don't doubt the journalism is dead. But for these people
in the White House, I'm noticing something like I haven't
(21:04):
seen since Reagan and Kennedy appreciate his transparency, appreciate his candor,
and yesterday they'd appreciate a bigger room to play it.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Listen, you're building a big beautiful ballroom. Could we build
a big, beautiful briefing room.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I don't want you to be comfortable.
Speaker 9 (21:37):
No, I don't want to make I don't want to
make life comfortable.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
So you're building a big beauty. I know we're going
to talk to John Decker a little bit more about this.
That may have been the most crowd of that room ever.
Was for some pretty big topics. But in the midst
of all of it, I don't know, I gotta come
and say I'm trying to edit myself. It's like a
(22:02):
spirit of joy. I don't know. It's like remember the
movie Lean On Me. After Morgan Freeman's character bus chops
for a while, then you're out allowed to have some
fun too. Something very encouraging in that I was talking
to a dear colleague gun his birthday yesterday. He really
(22:26):
thought Judge Janine shined yesterday. Le here was one of
her band moments. As Big John would say.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
I see too much violent crime being committed by young
punks who think that they can get together in gangs
and crews and beat the hell out of you or
anyone else. They don't care where they are. They can
be in DuPont Circle, but they know that we can't
touch them. Why because the laws are weak. I can't
(22:56):
touch you if you're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old
and you have a gun. I convict someone of shooting
another person with an illegal gun on a public bus
in the chest, intent to kill.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I convict him, and you know what, the.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
Judge gives him probation, says you should go to college.
We need to go after the DC Council and their
absurd laws. We need to get rid of this concept
of a no cash fail. We need to recognize that
the people who matter are the law abiding citizens.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And it starts.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Today, but it's not going to end today because the
President is going to do everything we need to do
to make sure that these emboldened criminals understand we see you,
we're watching you, and we're going to change the law
to catch you. And my final note is this, these
kids understand that the jurisdiction is through the state Attorney
(23:55):
General Brian Schwab. I did a poster of the young
man from Coach who is beaten, bloody with a severe
concussion of broken nose, and then I did a poster
of what happens to those kids because I can't arrest them,
I can't prosecute them. They go to family court and
they get to do yoga and.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Arts and crafts.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Enough it changes today.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
There's a lot of fire in that little package. Jennine Piro,
who is the US Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Now I am fully aware that, look, I don't like
this is in reverse order. Obviously, she goes from being
a judge to being a opinionated host on a partisan
(24:43):
news network and the news and entertainment network to them
back to public service. So it's a little bit reversed.
And some people, you know, you wouldn't like it if
they were plucking people, and you don't like it when
they do it, pluck people right off MSNBC, CNN and
put them in positions. But I think she'd to rest
that this was some kind of a Fox appointment. She
(25:06):
is a very accomplished judge, and now she seems to
be a very determined US attorney in the District of Columbia.
She certainly shined yesterday. She barely could reach the podium.
We gotta get arrest. I didn't realize Didie Perro was
that tiny. This is just nasty. This is a former
(25:26):
Bravo star. This is more of the almost hesitated in
playing it. I don't know that this moves the needle forward,
moves the conversation forward, moves the flawed spirit in our
country forward in any way. But just to give you
a glimpse that just sound nasty the left can be
(25:49):
and how they're thinking is so ginned up by either
deceiving narratives, distorted narratives, or false narratives that they arrive
at these kinds of nasty, false conclusions. This is how
the left views the right. I don't I'm not comfortable.
(26:11):
I want the right to stop doing. The left is
the enemy. The left to stop doing the right is
the enemy. I want us all to return to our
original intent and documents that guide us to the God
who guided us, and to self governance that guides us.
But this is an example of just how nasty it's gotten.
I've had it with.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
White people that triple trump YEA, that have the nerve
and the audacity to walk into a Mexican restaurant, a
Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Go to perhaps their gay hairdresser.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Brindley, I don't think you should be able to enjoy
anything but cracker barrel. And if you want to triple Trump,
you want to browbeat DEI. You want to browbeat gay people,
and you want to browbeat black people as you've been
doing for four hundred years. And you want to browbeat
this generation of immigrants that come over here and open
up businesses, earnestly pay their taxes.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Why people that.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Triple Trump should be banned, boycotted from enjoying the best
thing that America has to offer, which is multi culturalism.
Get your fats out of the Mexican restaurant, get your
fats over to cracker beer.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
So the reason why I had would be chomping at
the bit to discuss the Democrat parties problematic stances on slavery, segregation,
and other things throughout history, or their bedfellows islamis with gay.
(27:46):
I mean, it's just so misinformed, so distorted. I wouldn't
know where to begin to break it down other than
to say, this is why the matrix is so important.
I was just going to say, I like Margaritis, that's
why you go, Well, I do have the in depth
conversation between two real political policy geniuses, Jimmy Kimmel and
(28:10):
Sarah Silverman on a podcast.
Speaker 13 (28:12):
If you.
Speaker 14 (28:13):
A lot of usually know we're thinking about where they
can get UH citizenship.
Speaker 13 (28:19):
And I do have Italian I did get Italian citizens
You do amazing.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I do have that.
Speaker 13 (28:26):
And what's going on is UH is as bad as
you thought it was gonna be way worse.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
It's so much worse thought it was like, oh yeah,
so much worse. By the way, there'll be no specifics given.
Speaker 13 (28:42):
I feel like it's probably even worse than he would
like it to be.
Speaker 14 (28:47):
Probably, Yeah, I mean I do every once in a while,
I'll google Trump regrets or Maga regrets just to see
all the people that I'm not happy that they're upset
and another but I'm it makes me hope that maybe people
will this will bring people together.
Speaker 13 (29:06):
Yeah, well, I have some thoughts on that, and I
think that there are a lot of people like now,
you see like these clips of Joe Rogan saying, I.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Mean, it just goes on and on, and I don't know,
there's an irrelevance that's brewing. I mean, you listen to
that clip and you think it's been a while since
either of them made me laugh. I don't know why
they gave up on comedy or never mastered comedy, but
(29:37):
they certainly haven't mastered political. You know, next next, Yeah, Well,
his contract is up at the end of the year,
and I don't I don't. I don't know if he's
headed for Italy, but I think he'll be shown the
door in LA that's for sure. Everybody.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Look, he's just got to try harder not to the
opportunity for a brief civic lesson.
Speaker 9 (30:00):
Sure fashion, perhaps you'd like to be alone with you
a conteriorating mental condition.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
And that.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Is your Sounds of the Day for this Tuesday, August.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
The twelfth, it's your morning show with Michael del Chno.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
If you're just waking up. The President announced he's federalizing
the Washington DC Police Department as part of a crime crackdown.
Question is is it going to stop there? Question is
is this that unprecedented? Certainly within his constitutional authority. Why
has no other president done it before? Well? John Decker,
our White House correspondent, was in that crowded? Was that
the most and you've served date presidents now as a
(30:38):
White House correspondent, was that the most crowded room that
you've ever been in?
Speaker 15 (30:43):
I think it was, you know, and you're right. I've
been in there for all kinds of announcements by every
president since Bill Clinton, but that I think was the
most crowd it has ever been.
Speaker 16 (30:53):
Thankfully I had a seat, but unfortunately I.
Speaker 15 (30:57):
Did not get called upon yesterday, but good.
Speaker 16 (30:59):
Questions being asked by my colleagues.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Let me ask you. There was a question a picture
you sent me from behind President Trump and it was
kind of like one of those like panoramic type things.
Who took that?
Speaker 15 (31:09):
Yes, that's any photographer, yes, arimial photo. Yeah, so that
that is done by remote So there's no one with
the ladder.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Behind the president.
Speaker 15 (31:18):
It's a remote camera and it's it takes a pretty
cool picture.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
And that's why. So let me ask you this, seeing
how crowded it is, it came up. Do you think
we need a bigger press room? President says he doesn't
want you to be that comfortable.
Speaker 15 (31:33):
Yeah, no, I don't think that's going to happen. I
don't want that to happen.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
By the way, it's.
Speaker 15 (31:37):
Great our proximity to the White to the West Wing,
our proximity to the Oval Office. And the President enjoys that.
Speaker 16 (31:44):
Too, you know, he can simply leave his office, take
a few steps.
Speaker 15 (31:48):
And he's in the briefing room. So yeah, I don't
I don't think that's going to change.
Speaker 16 (31:51):
I'm going I'm going I'm.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Going softball into hard But one last on the on
the softball front, we're all sensing a difference. Uh, the
first term of Donald Trump was so combative between the
press and the president. Quite frankly, it was dysfunctional. Now
we're still getting the tough questions, they're getting getting the
tough answers, but it's as if there's an appreciation of
(32:14):
the transparency and the availability of this president. Yesterday a
lot of tough questions asked, and then there was a
lot of just spirited joy in the room as everybody
was kind of having a good time going back and forth.
How do you compare the mood in the room not
just between Trump one and Trump two, but even the
other presidencies you've covered. This feels very Kennedy reaganlike.
Speaker 15 (32:35):
Well, it's different. You know, it's it's hard to say,
you know, in just you know, one sentence, how it's different.
You know, I think it's certainly different than the first term.
There was, without a doubt you noticed it, but I
felt it every day. Uh, there was this this battle
that happened, it seemed every day between the President and
(32:56):
certain members of the Press Corps. Not everybody, but certain
members of the press Corps. That is not happening as much.
And you're right, the Press Cort definitely appreciates all of
the access that we get to President Trump and the
opportunity to ask the President questions almost every day.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
All right, a lot of good questions, a lot of
synac answers, most significant Q and A that you witnessed
that we shouldn't miss.
Speaker 15 (33:20):
Yes, Well, in terms of yeah, I think that it
really has to do with, you know, something that affects
the entire world. That's the war in Ukraine. You know,
I mean, DC affects a small population and it's important
obviously the residents of the district, but the war in
Ukraine is an issue that affects the entire world, not
just Ukraine. It affects certainly Europe. So the President giving
(33:41):
a preview about what he expects, what we can expect,
what he'd like to see happen in terms of goals
coming out of this one on one summit that'll have
with President Putin on Friday in Alaska. I'll be there
in Alaska, Michael. I look forward to talking to you
when I'm there. But the President spoke about two goals.
One goal trying to get an immediate.
Speaker 16 (34:00):
Ceasefire in place, uh, and then the second goal.
Speaker 15 (34:04):
Is trying to win some territorial concessions coming from President Whoton.
That's going to be difficult. That's going to be very difficult.
But we'll see what happens during the course of the
president's meeting.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
John Decker, White House correspondent joining us he'll be in
Alaska for the summit. Why do you think the President
said he'll know within two minutes.
Speaker 16 (34:23):
Because he feels he can read.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
A room well, and I.
Speaker 15 (34:26):
Think that that is one of his skill sets.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
Uh.
Speaker 15 (34:29):
And you know, I think that he understands after all
the conversations that he's had with Vladimir Putin and things
that are big supporters of the president, he'll know if
he's getting played. And so that's what I think he
meant when he said he'll know it's.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
In the first two minutes and knows Zolensky and he
knows Zolensky. Yeah, just premature right at this point.
Speaker 15 (34:48):
Yeah, yeah, Nos Zolensky. Uh, and that is I think
pretty much set in stone. There will not be an
appearance of President Vladimir Lensky in Alaska.
Speaker 16 (35:00):
This coming Friday. The president, certainly.
Speaker 15 (35:02):
We'll have to meet with him in the near future
after this meeting on Friday with Pooty.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Well, you're either outside all alone in solitude by the
West Wing, or you're crowded in that room. But thank god,
you're there for us, and you'll be there for us
in Alaska. White House Correspondent John Decker, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
We're all in this together. This is your morning show
with Michael Enheld, journo
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